BEYOND: The Cary Film Festival

WORKSHOP: RAISING FUNDS FOR YOUR INDIE FILM

WORKSHOP: RAISING FUNDS FOR YOUR INDIE FILM
Friday, September 12, 2025
12pm

RAISING FUNDS FOR YOUR INDIE FILM
Academy Pavilion, Downtown Cary Park | 90 minutes | Workshop
Instructor: Sara Elizabeth Timmins
Lunch Provided

Not sure where to look for funding? Does the business side (contracts, investor docs, etc.) make your head spin? Does asking for money make you nervous? We will dive into ways to obtain financing for your film with a focus on private equity. We’re going to give you our best secrets, tips and tricks for finding, pitching, and securing quality equity investors. You will spend LESS time worrying, and MORE time making your dream project!

 
Sara Elizabeth Timmins established Life Out Loud Films in 2008 to create quality, inspiring impact films that champion women. Her films have been seen in theatres, HBO, Amazon, Netflix, The Hallmark Channel, Starz, Showtime and internationally. She has worked with Oscar & Emmy winning talents like Jane Seymour, Ellen Burstyn, Chris Cooper, Josh Lucas and Mackenzie Foy and writers like NY Times Best Selling Author David Baldacci. Every film has featured award winning talent and secured international distribution. She field-produced the Emmy nominated HBO docu series McMillions for Mark Wahlberg’s company which premiered at Sundance 2020, a true story she has had the rights to and has been developing for years is now being developed into a docuseries for Netflix and she currently has several films in various stages of development. She is also a film consultant/coach and founder of NO FILM SCHOOL. NO TRUST FUND. NO PROBLEM., a program she created to elevate emerging voices and to create community and education while fostering inspiration and authenticity for indie filmmakers. Sara Elizabeth believes she has a responsibility through film to spark conversations, that inspire action, that ignites change.
 
 
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